"Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by William Howitt, first published in 1847, that features the biographical accounts of the most distinguished literary figures among the British. Contents: Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser Shakespeare Abraham Cowley John Milton Samuel Butler John Dryden Joseph Addison John Gay Alexander Pope Dean Swift James Thomson William Shenstone Chatterton Thomas Gray Oliver Goldsmith Robert Burns William Cowper Mrs. Tighe John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron George Crabbe James Hogg Samuel Taylor Coleridge Felicia Hemans L. E. L. Sir Walter Scott Thomas Campbell Robert Southey Joanna Baillie William Wordsworth James Montgomery Walter Savage Landor Leigh Hunt Samuel Rogers Thomas Moore Ebenezer Elliott John Wilson Waller Bryan Procter Alfred Tennyson Concluding RemarksWilliam Howitt (1792-1879) was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects. He married, in 1821, Mary Botham, who like himself was a Quaker and a poet. William and Mary Howitt collaborated throughout a long literary career, the first of their joint productions being The Forest Minstrels and other Poems (1821). The Howitts are remembered for their untiring efforts to provide wholesome and instructive literature. Howitt Primary Community School in Heanor, Derbyshire, is named after them.
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